Marriages That Matter

Services Offered*

8-session educational courses based on the secular curriculum "Exploring Relationships and Marriages with Fragile Families". Courses are offered to inmates at Dixon Correctional Institute, participants in the "STEP OUT" program and their partners.

Case management services through Key Foundations.

Work with Support Enforcement Services to: establish paternity, pay child support, decrease state owed child support averages up to 25%

*Participants must meet all program requirements to access services.

About the Collaborative Team

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.

The Louisiana Department of Social Services, Office of Support Enforcement Services (SES) has been set up by the federal government to enforce the responsibility for support of children on their parents in an attempt to reduce the children's dependence on public assistance. Child support is an obligation of a parent to provide emotional, financial, and medical support of a child or children.

Dixon Correctional (DCI) opened in 1976 and is the first medium sercurity satellite in Louisiana. The prison is located in East Feliciana Parish and has a maximum capacity of 1,340 men.

Key Foundations' mission is to break destructive cycles through educating children, enriching families and empowering communities, using Christian principles, through partnerships with community organizations. Key Foundations' project goals and desired outcomes include: increased availability of quality childcare and preschool programs, support and education for parents and caregivers and community partnering to strengthen marriages and support families with children.

Refined by Fire Ministries, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 as a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide programming in adult and juvenile correctional facilities. The vision of RBF is to ensure that the incarcerated and at-risk populations of Louisiana are provided sufficient resources to re-direct their lives through educational programs as they strive to be restored to their families and become contributing member of their communities.

This grant is funded through the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families and The Louisiana Children's Trust Fund.